The Top 10 fungal pathogens in molecular plant pathology

R Dean, JAL Van Kan, ZA Pretorius…�- Molecular plant�…, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this review was to survey all fungal pathologists with an association with the
journal Molecular Plant Pathology and ask them to nominate which fungal pathogens they�…

Grey mould of strawberry, a devastating disease caused by the ubiquitous necrotrophic fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea

S Petrasch, SJ Knapp, JAL Van Kan…�- Molecular plant�…, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea causes grey mould, a commercially damaging disease
of strawberry. This pathogen affects fruit in the field, storage, transport and market. The�…

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of effector protein structures from fungal phytopathogens enables evolutionary analyses

K Seong, KV Krasileva�- Nature Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Elucidating the similarity and diversity of pathogen effectors is critical to understand their
evolution across fungal phytopathogens. However, rapid divergence that diminishes�…

Fungal small RNAs suppress plant immunity by hijacking host RNA interference pathways

A Weiberg, M Wang, FM Lin, H Zhao, Z Zhang…�- Science, 2013 - science.org
Botrytis cinerea, the causative agent of gray mold disease, is an aggressive fungal pathogen
that infects more than 200 plant species. Here, we show that some B. cinerea small RNAs�…

[HTML][HTML] Lifestyle transitions in plant pathogenic Colletotrichum fungi deciphered by genome and transcriptome analyses

RJ O'Connell, MR Thon, S Hacquard, SG Amyotte…�- Nature�…, 2012 - nature.com
Colletotrichum species are fungal pathogens that devastate crop plants worldwide. Host
infection involves the differentiation of specialized cell types that are associated with�…

[HTML][HTML] Secondary metabolites in fungus-plant interactions

T Pusztahelyi, IJ Holb, I P�csi�- Frontiers in plant science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Fungi and plants are rich sources of thousands of secondary metabolites. The genetically
coded possibilities for secondary metabolite production, the stimuli of the production, and�…

Plant cell wall–degrading enzymes and their secretion in plant-pathogenic fungi

CP Kubicek, TL Starr, NL Glass�- Annual review of�…, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Approximately a tenth of all described fungal species can cause diseases in plants. A
common feature of this process is the necessity to pass through the plant cell wall, an�…

Improved prediction of fungal effector proteins from secretomes with EffectorP 2.0

J Sperschneider, PN Dodds…�- Molecular plant�…, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Plant‐pathogenic fungi secrete effector proteins to facilitate infection. We describe extensive
improvements to EffectorP, the first machine learning classifier for fungal effector prediction�…

[HTML][HTML] WNT signaling in melanoma

A Gajos-Michniewicz, M Czyz�- International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
WNT-signaling controls important cellular processes throughout embryonic development
and adult life, so any deregulation of this signaling can result in a wide range of pathologies�…

[HTML][HTML] A 2-kb mycovirus converts a pathogenic fungus into a beneficial endophyte for Brassica protection and yield enhancement

H Zhang, J Xie, Y Fu, J Cheng, Z Qu, Z Zhao, S Cheng…�- Molecular plant, 2020 - cell.com
Mycoviruses are viruses that infect fungi, and hypovirulence-associated mycoviruses have
the potential to control fungal diseases. However, it is unclear how mycovirus-mediated�…